This is interesting, I was just discussing a similar idea with a friend only a month or so ago. Our "inspiration" was the Wikileaks ordeal, to see if there was a way to sort of crowd source web pages, similar to how bittorrents work. Could a site such as wikileaks eliminate the problem of finding supportive hosting if they could just have their user base host their app instead? It'd be a cloud app hosted by the crowd.
Its an interesting idea, but one that is full of complicated issues, as mentioned in other comments here. Either way, I'd love to see a project like this get some traction, even if it provides a somewhat limited platform for development.
it is definitely full of complicated issues, but we have already found solutions for some of them (not all yet). please join our mailing list and help think about the remaining ones. it will at least be interesting to have a place where people talk about these things. i can also recommend the p2p-hackers mailinglist to you in that respect.
Its an interesting idea, but one that is full of complicated issues, as mentioned in other comments here. Either way, I'd love to see a project like this get some traction, even if it provides a somewhat limited platform for development.